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Surely to Allahu ta’ālā belongs pure religion, none other than Him being deserving of it. And those who take besides Him, the idols [as], patrons: and they are the disbelievers of Mecca - they say: 'We only worship them so that they may bring us near to Allahu ta’ālā' (zulfā, a verbal noun, with the sense of taqrīban, 'for the sake of nearness'). Allahu ta’ālā will indeed judge between them, and the Muslims, concerning that about which they differ, of religion, and so admit the believers into Paradise, and the disbelievers into the Fire. Truly Allahu ta’ālā does not guide one who is a liar, attributing a child to Him, a disbeliever, worshipping other than Allahu ta’ālā.